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Lies in the north-east of the country and borders on the regions of Aberdeenshire
and "Highland". It covers parts of the traditional counties of Nairnshire, Morayshire,
Inverness-shire and Banffshire. It has an area of 864 square miles (2,237 sq km)
and a population of around 87,000.
In Moray there are the popular towns of Kingston,
Keith, Dufftown,
Burghead, Mosstodloch and
Forgie
Geography
Stretching from the Cairngorm Mountains northwards to a coastal lowland plain known
as the Laigh of Moray, Moray is bisected by the River Spey, which flows northwards
to empty into the North Sea.
Industry
The region is renowned for its many whisky distilleries.
History
The Picts occupied the area in prehistoric times when sometime in the century after
the reign of Kenneth (754), the branch of the Tribe of Loarn headed by Ruadri moved
into the province of Moray. The leader of the Moraymen was called a mormaer, which
is a Celtic title equivalent to the Anglo-Scandinavian earl. Moray suffered from
Norse invasions in the 10th and 11th centuries until Macbeth became King. In 1029
Gillacomgain became Mormaer of Moray and married Gruoch, grand-daughter of King
Kenneth III (997 to 1005). This advanced the claim of the House of Moray to the
throne of Scotland. In 1032,The Mormaership passed to Macbeth, cousin of Gillacomgain
and son of Findlaech. Macbeth strengthened his rule by marrying the widow of Gillacomgain,
Gruoch. But Macbeth aspired to greater things than the leadership of the Moraymen.
He became acommander in the army of Duncan I, King of Scots from 1034 to 1040.
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